Dance Raja Dance

Dance Raja Dance
Directed by	Dwarakish
Produced by	Dwarakish
Written by	Dwarakish
Starring	Vinod Raj Divya Devaraj
Music by	Vijay Anand
Cinematography	R. Deviprasad
Edited by	Gowtham Raju
Production company	Dwarakish Chitra
Release dates	1987
Running time	134 min
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Dance Raja Dance (Kannada: ಡಾನ್ಸ್ ರಾಜ ಡಾನ್ಸ್) is a 1987 Kannada dance film directed and produced by Dwarakish for his Dwarakish Chitra banner. The film starred newcomers Vinod Raj, Divya and Sangeetha in lead roles.

The film released to positive response by critics and audience and the lead star Vinod Raj was lauded for his dancing skills. The dance moves of the song "Dance Dance Raja Dance" from this film was an inspiration to the widely popular video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories^[1] For this movies climax was shot by Helicopter, apart from that they used 5 cameras to shoot this climax scene. Actually it was Dwarakish's Dream to shoot mysore from aerial angle. He dropped that idea due to financial crisis. But Then Chief minister Mr.Ramakrishna hegde came to know this dream and he helped Dwarakish to do so. He called his minister Siddaramayya ( present chief minister) to go mysore with helicopter. He went with the helicopter and told Dwarakish to utilize the helicopter.

Cast

• Vinod Raj as Raja
• Divya
• Sangeetha
• Srinath
• Devaraj
• Sundar Raj
• Keerthi Raj

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Vijay Anand with lyrics by Chi. Udaya Shankar and R. N. Jayagopal. Music director A. R. Rahman, who was Dilip then, had assisted Vijay Anand on the keyboards^[2]

References

External links

• Dance Raja Dance at the Internet Movie Database
• Dance Raja Dance